Blog: THE RECOMMENDER

Music blogs moved on from being self-obsessed, online vanity projects some years ago. Sure there's still a sense of them being personal, independent and amateur, but upon these sites are voices and opinions that are commonly regarded as 'tastemakers' within the music industry. The blogging sphere is a zone in which influence can now be dispensed, giving useful, ever-growing spotlights to the music we cover. Blogs have created a place where you can genuinely discover something new, a home which is now anchored at the new cutting edges of emerging music. They've not so much replaced the traditional music media, more [...]